Quote of the Day: March 2009

"No one said this would be easy. But we are more determined than ever to overcome his veto." --Vermont Senate President Pro Tem Peter Shumlin on trying to beat the governor's threatened veto on marriage...Read More

"It's time to stop sending any hard-earned dollars to this country. As long as the officials in Jamaica can count on tourism dollars from the U.S., they have little reason to stop the anti-gay domestic terrorism it perpetrates and enables....Read More

"In a scene from "I Am Legend" Will Smith talks to a mannequin to try to emulate human contact. Of course this fall short and it's exactly the same dynamic that exists on the Web when organizations refuse to talk...Read More

"When a Dimmycrat gets defeated he says his wife didn' want him t' run; an' when a Republican gits snowed under he says th' people are follerin' strange gods." -- Kin Hubbard, speaking through his most famous character Abe Martin...Read More

The Pope should take the important opportunity of this visit to Cameroon to make clear that the Holy See abhors any attacks or persecution of people based on their sexual orientation, and call on the government to decriminalize homosexuality," --...Read More

"Homosexuality is seen like fashion these days...For many it's a way of going against things. However, it's written clearly in the bible that homosexuality, whether masculine or feminine, is wrong...As a Christian I would advise gay people to read the...Read More

"Honestly, I love Vermont, and I can't believe that somewhere with such beauty and somewhere with so many artistic, caring, and courageous people, would disallow happiness to a whole group of equally shimmering people just because of sexuality." --Outright Vermont...Read More

"Teachers should neither be promoting nor speaking against homosexuality. They should not talk about it all. Leave it up to families to talk about it." --Tennessee rep. Stacey Campfield (R), discussing her his [thanks to Beth in the comments] proposed...Read More

"Proponents of gay marriage are very good at voting with their wallets and we are not because we're traditionalists who don't want to hurt anyone." --Vermont homophobe Stephen Cable, speaking from an alternate universe...Read More

"When someone asks me, "are gay rights civil rights?" my answer is always, "Of course, they are." Civil rights are positive legal prerogatives: the right to equal treatment before the law. These are the rights shared by everyone. There is...Read More

"Butchness borrows from masculinity, but it is not necessarily manly. When this masculinity is expressed through a woman's body, different things happen. . . . A butch lesbian, at least in the ideal, is not the best of both worlds,...Read More

"'But again why is it so important for us to stop people from becoming gay?'--a participant asked. It's very important because the homosexual agenda is to turn the whole world gay." --Holocaust revisionist Scott Lively on the global homosexual agenda...Read More

"Well, my position is, hey, look, I have been, um, supportive of a lot of my friends who are gay in some of the core things that they believe are important to them. You know, the ability to be able...Read More

"It is unfortunate that a segment of our society fails to see that we all should be treated like human beings, that we all are citizens of the United States of America. I've taken the position and I've long held...Read More

"I know that as the author of this measure, we have to continue to educate for both marriage equality and equal employment benefits for domestic partners, and it's important in that educational process to have the facts about how the...Read More

"But at the dinner table last night, Sandy and I talked to our kids about what happened in the courtroom yesterday. I said, 'But you know what gives me hope?' Right away, my 12-year-old son Julian said, 'The next generation,'...Read More

"This Proposition 8 in California, this attempt to undo good that has been done, this attempt to create divorces for 18,000 people who were perfectly legally brought together in partnerships. This is unacceptable and this shows why we have always...Read More

"If a black man from Chicago was taught to stand far away from gay people because he didn't want to be accused of being gay. What would happen if he'd run into a gay man? What's the talk? What would...Read More

"One of the benefits of adding gays and lesbians to the institution of marriage is that we model different ways of coupling. We show straight couples that things can be done in a different, sometimes better, way--for example, dividing responsibilities...Read More

"The priorities have been Hate Crimes and ENDA, fully inclusive legislation in those two areas, so we'll have to have our strategy work around on how we can get those passed, as well as move forward on Don't Ask, Don't...Read More

"For most men, the gay world is - warts and all - a paradise of freedom when compared with the heterosexual wasteland we came from. But it's nonetheless a world with a lot of pressure and a lot of problems,...Read More

"Heterosexuals cause economic crisis. Economists today announced that more than 95% of the current recession has been caused by heterosexuals. Heterosexuals with children caused the mortgage crisis which led to the current economic crisis which some say is the worst...Read More

"Because I am in this generation and was raised in a pro-gay-marriage era, I am only a little bit against gay marriage, but only a little, like 53 percent to 47. I have about a dozen gay friends, 30 or...Read More